Aaron vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Aaron Higgins

1:10:54 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
560th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

James Willingham

1:08:55 best Open Men time · Bologna 2026
171st of 1,805 place in that race · 1,805 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

Aaron: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · James: Bologna 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
AaronJamesedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Aaron and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Aaron: strongest on Lunges (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 34%).James: strongest on BBJ (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 72%).

See the numbers
Part Aaron: faster than James: faster than
Ski 79% 77%
Push 90% 87%
Pull 89% 80%
BBJ 72% 95%
Row 87% 82%
Carry 64% 87%
Lunges 94% 73%
Wall balls 34% 72%
Roxzone 87% 94%
Runs 93% 87%

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part Aaron James
SkiErg 79% 77%
Sled push 90% 87%
Sled pull 89% 80%
Burpee broad jump 72% 95%
Row 87% 82%
Farmers carry 64% 87%
Sandbag lunges 94% 73%
Wall balls 34% 72%
Roxzone (moving) 87% 94%
Runs (8 km) 93% 87%

The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.

Those races as one bar each

Aaron · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:10:54
4:264:173:452:203:563:533:594:434:104:274:071:593:513:374:018:215:10
James · Bologna 2026 · Open Men1:08:55
4:094:214:082:264:113:444:093:274:144:294:101:464:114:284:325:285:09
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.Aaron · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 32:15 running, 33:37 at the stations and 5:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:21).Below, James · Bologna 2026 · Open Men: 33:43 running, 30:09 at the stations and 5:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:28).

See the numbers
Part Aaron · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men James · Bologna 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:26 4:09
SkiErg 4:17 4:21
Run 2 3:45 4:08
Sled push 2:20 2:26
Run 3 3:56 4:11
Sled pull 3:53 3:44
Run 4 3:59 4:09
Burpee broad jump 4:43 3:27
Run 5 4:10 4:14
Row 4:27 4:29
Run 6 4:07 4:10
Farmers carry 1:59 1:46
Run 7 3:51 4:11
Sandbag lunges 3:37 4:28
Run 8 4:01 4:32
Wall balls 8:21 5:28
Roxzone 5:10 5:09
Finish 1:10:54 1:08:55

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Aaron James Gap
London Olympia 2026 Open Men · 24 Mar 2026 1:12:27 1:12:29 0:02 · Aaron faster
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